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Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on August 29 slammed Supreme Court Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial for “favouring” Imran Khan, saying his messages to the lower courts led to the suspension of the sentence of the former Premier and called the verdict a “dark chapter” in the country’s history. The Islamabad High Court (IHC)…
The Islamabad High Court on August 29 suspended Imran Khan’s three-year sentence in the Toshakhana corruption case and ordered his release from jail, in a major relief to Pakistan’s embattled former Prime Minister ahead of the upcoming general elections. A Division Bench comprising Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood…
“Nigerian security forces have rescued dozens of captives mostly women and children held by Islamic extremist rebels in the country’s hard-hit north-eastern region,” the Army said. The Nigerian Army said, on August 28, that 25 captives were rescued during “clearance operations” by its troops in Borno state’s Gwoza district, a hotbed for the jihadi violence…
Authorities say the mixing of xylazine with fentanyl has created a deadly cocktail. The issue of drug overdose has become a persistent concern on American streets in recent times. Data by US federal government indicates that a drug overdose claims one life every five minutes in the country. Now the flesh-eating “zombie drug” is causing…
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Juno took this image 14,600 miles (23,500 km) above the planet’s cloud tops. Incredible images of Jupiter, resembling abstract watercolour paintings, have emerged from NASA through its Juno mission. On Monday, NASA shared stunning new images captured by Juno, which shows powerful storms around Jupiter. The spacecraft took this image 14,600 miles (23,500 km) above…
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The Police Officers Association tweeted this photo of Reem’s California. The San Francisco Police Officer Association has posted on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) that a city bakery chain has a policy of not serving uniformed cops. Reem’s California, a regional chain of Arab street food restaurants and bakeries, has declared a…
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Mari Dinjaku was linked to a number of burglaries. A serial burglar, responsible for several “sophisticated” burglaries across various locations in Britain, where he stole items exceeding 800,000 pounds ($1,009,132) in value, was ultimately caught due to an electronic tag placed within stolen luggage. Mari Dinjaku, aged 38, was arrested at his residence in Wokingham,…
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This undated photo supplied by Canberra Health Services, shows a parasite in a specimen jar at a Canberra hospital in Australia. | Photo Credit: AP A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient’s brain. Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy through…
H.J.M Seneviratne cuts yellow paddy stems that dried following drought, at his paddy field in Anamaduwa, Sri Lanka. | Photo Credit: Reuters H.J.M Seneviratne (63) slices through yellowed paddy stems dried out by a drought that has destroyed more than 95% of his crop and is threatening crisis-hit Sri Lanka’s summer rice harvest. The island’s…
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This picture shows a sign reading “Suspend the sale of all fish products imported from Japan” an area of Japanese restaurants in Beijing on August 27, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP Japan threatened on August 29 to take China to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to seek a reversal of Beijing’s ban on all of…
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